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Nozick said Harvard is a "universalist institution," employing Jewish professors who want to make a contribution to Western intellectual culture. He said some professors formerly tried to conceal their Jewish origins, but "Jewish motivation would begin to bear on their work...

Author: By Steven J. Sampson, | Title: Nozick, Walzer Predict Jews Will Focus on Jewish Issues | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

Both professors agreed that "particularism versus universalism" is a major issue facing American Jews today. Nozick said the universalist doctrine says one should "care about everybody equally," while a particularist doctrine allows one to care especially about one particular gorup...

Author: By Steven J. Sampson, | Title: Nozick, Walzer Predict Jews Will Focus on Jewish Issues | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

...Frank A. Hall Murray Universalist Church Attleboro, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 20, 1978 | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

...Never a very sophisticated and self-critical socialist, to be sure; the leftist Harlem newspaper he published through the 1950s often presented facile and sometimes unrealistic analyses of black urban politics and culture. But Robeson never was a keen student of historical change; his Marxism stemmed from that same universalist vision, that dream that all other blacks might someday feel, like him, part of the family...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Of Love and Longing, Trials and Triumphs | 10/6/1977 | See Source »

Unitarian Universalist Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 5, 1977 | 9/5/1977 | See Source »

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